A beautiful map with bold mountains. This edition of Ptolemy, which was reduced in size with Latin text, was first compiled by Laurent Fries and published by Johannes Gruninger with further editions by W. Pirkheimer, Regiomontanus and Michael Servetus.

Dimensions (W x H): 45.2 x 29.8 / 18 x 11½

Attractive map of the Ottoman Empire, with Turkey at upper centre, from Italy to Iran, and from the Crimea to Ethiopia. Striking decorative title cartouche at lower left with three Sultans above and two slaves either side

Dimensions (W x H): 55.8 x 45.5 / 22 x 18

Beautiful map of Turkey, with ornamental calligraphy, shot silk effect sea, sea monster and sailing ship. Strapwork cartouche at lower right. Two more cartouches, one shows scales, the other has Latin inscription.

Dimensions (W x H): 47.4 x 34 / 18½ x 13½

Clear and attractive map of Turkey, including Cyprus and the eastern Aegean islands. Title on ribbon at top, flanked by turbanned angels. Fighting ships at sea, sea monsters, scale at lower right The signature ‘bb’ on rear of map suggests this map is from the Appendix Atlantis, to the Newer Atlas ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38.5 / 19½ x 15

A beautiful map of Turkey, Cyprus and the eastern Aegean islands with battling vessels and sea monsters. Scale at lower right, title in banner across top centre flanked by turbanned angels. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandica, 8110:1B

Dimensions (W x H): 49.8 x 38.3 / 19½ x 15

A boldly engraved map of Turkey

Dimensions (W x H): 34.2 x 25.2 / 13½ x 10

An attractive seventeenth century map of the Turkish Empire, which at the time stretched from the Danube to the Persian Gulf, and along the coast of North Africa. Decorated cartouche at lower left with throned sultan flanked by soldiers.

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 28 / 14 x 11

Handsome map of Asia Minor, within a beaded border. Text in Latin along lower edge, title along top edge. Matthaus Quad was a German cartographer based in Cologne, which, at the time was the centre for German cartography. This map is from his Fascilus Geographicus. It was printed by Johannes ...

Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 22 / 11 x 8½

Handsome map of Turkey, extending eastwards as far as Armenia and south as far Damascus. Decorative cartouche at lower left. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was unusual in that he was cartographer to both the French and English Royal Courts.

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 35 / 16½ x 14

An attractive map of Asia Minor with title cartouche in the upper left-hand side. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was one of the most beautifully produced of 18th century atlases. He drew on the work of other cartographers - ...

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 31.1 / 15½ x 12

Attractive map of Turkey and surrounding lands, from Greece to the Caspian Sea and south to Arabian border. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries ...

Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 19 / 9½ x 7½

Attractive map of Turkey, including Cyprus and many of the Greek Islands, Cartouche at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

A beautiful little map of Turkey from Porcacchi’s famous atlas, also showing Crete and many of the Aegean Islands. Atlases of islands were very popular at the time. The map occupies the centre of a larger page ( 19 x 29.5cm) with text in Italian above and below.

Dimensions (W x H): 17 x 13 / 6½ x 5

Attractive map of Turkey, title cartouche at top right. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was published in Bion’s treatise ...

Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 18 / 9 x 7

Attractive map of Turkey in Asia, which at the time stretched from the Bosporus to Gaza, and down the Tigris nearly as far as Basra, including Syria, Lebanon, much of Armenia and Iraq.

Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 41 / 20½ x 16

Like many of Bowen’s maps, this map contains many topographical and historical notes. Bowen was one of the most successful and celebrated mapmakers of his time, yet died poor and nearly blind

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12

In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13 / 7½ x 5

In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½

Handsome map of Turkey in Asia, which at the time, included Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Iraq. The New General Atlas was one of the most accurate and best produced atlases of the day. John Thomson’s ‘County Atlas of Scotland’ is generally considered the finest of its kind.

Dimensions (W x H): 59 x 49.5 / 23 x 19½

Detailed map of Turkey, which at the time extended over much of Iraq to the Persian Gulf, Syria, Georgia, Armenia. John Arrowsmith constantly revised and improved his popular London Atlas and it ran to many editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 58 x 47.5 / 23 x 18½

Interesting map, showing Turkey extending to Armenia and Georgia, and including much of present day Iraq, as far as the Persian Gulf, along the course of the Tigris. Decorated cartouche.Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was ...

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 33 / 16½ x 13

Attractive map of Turkish Empire from Italy, around the Mediterranean to Tripoli and from the Black Sea south to Arabia, Inset map at lower left of Algeria and Tunisia. Decorated title cartouche at top right. with 3 turbanned caliphs holding audience, sitting on a carpet in a tent. 3 scales ...

Dimensions (W x H): 27.5 x 20.5 / 11 x 8

Map above, and view below of ‘Assemkalasi’, near Akkoy on the Turkish coast. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of their tour of the Greek islands, the coast of Asia Minor, and of his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 33 / 9 x 13

Dividing Europe and Asia, this detailed map of the Caucasus is comprised of northeastern Turkey and the Post-Soviet states of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, as well various parts of Russia.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 34 / 19½ x 13½

Attractive map of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Small inset of Mosul with the site of the Ruined Assyrian Cities below.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 34 / 19½ x 13½

An attractive map of the Ephesus plain in modern-day Turkey. The classical sites are shown in some detail and carefully labelled. Scale in top right corner and compass on right side. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I ...

Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 34.5 / 9 x 13½

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 30 / 16 x 12

Map of Turkey and most of the Middle East, and the lands borderng the Black Sea. Title cartouche at top left, 4 scales

Dimensions (W x H): 43 x 30 / 17 x 12

This beautiful map, accurate and concise, is from John Cary’s Universal Atlas. This was a compact version of his General Atlas, and shows the high standard of design, printing, and geographical accuracy that has led many to consider Cary as the finest of English map-makers.

Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 23 / x

Dimensions (W x H): 43 x 30 / 17 x 12

Detailed map of Turkey, extending into modern day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq

Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 33 / 16 x 13

Map of Turkey, and lands around the eastern Black Sea, Syria and the valley of the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf. Thomas Brown was an Edinburgh Bookseller and Publisher of the late 18th and early 19th century. The maps from his General Atlas are on the cusp between the decorative maps of the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 28 / 14 x 11

Dimensions (W x H): 26.5 x 35 / 10½ x 14

Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 26 / 14 x 10